After September 18, the infiltration of Japanese militarism in China began in all directions and pervasively. Even the handicraft industry, the textile industry and other aspects have been strongly impacted.

Affected by this, the Wang family's business was also greatly affected.

The small handmade products and cotton spinning operated by Xinglan are all manual or semi-mechanical manufacturing in small domestic processing workshops or small factories, and the products of the devil country are already completely industrialized, so they cannot compete with foreign products in terms of price, product fineness and other aspects.

Wang Xinglan was patriotic, and in response to the call of the national government at that time, she began to resist Japanese goods. Some lawbreakers took this opportunity to resell and smuggle Japanese goods, and the Wang family's business empire was facing unprecedented pressure.

In order to cope with all this, Xinglan went home to discuss with her father. The result of the discussion between the father and son is to reorganize their own purchase channels, give full play to the advantages of their own source to take goods directly, reduce their own profit margins, and invite some producers of handmade goods directly to their own stores to operate at the counter, exempting the counter use fee. In this way, handicraft goods have no intermediate circulation links and are directly facing consumers.

In terms of textiles, it is advertised to consumers that their semi-handmade cloth is processed from cotton as a local asset, and no chemical industrial products are mixed in it, even in printing and dyeing, and the old method of boiling some different plants is used to obtain the corresponding color. It is used for printing and dyeing.

After a series of efforts, in terms of resisting Japanese goods, although their own business has received less income due to sacrificing profits, on the whole, it can be regarded as temporarily stable.

In the face of the ever-changing momentum of development, Xinglan knew that the strength of one person or one family was too thin, so she came forward to contact dozens of famous Zhao families, Li families and other large families in the county, and jointly established the Dongyi County Business Federation.

The first president of the Chamber of Commerce was voted by Wang Xinglan. The purpose is to stay warm together to tide over the difficulties.

The first thing the federation did was to set up a cotton textile factory, which was voluntarily funded by more than a dozen large households and adopted the form of a joint-stock system. Then go to Shanghai to purchase machinery and equipment.

Buying land and building factories in the county is going on step by step.

The second thing the federation did was to mobilize the county's handicraft practitioners to jointly resist low-price dumping and supervise and crack down on the smuggling of Japanese goods.

After a series of efforts, in October Dongyi County Cotton Textile Factory was formally established, on the opening day, the newly appointed county magistrate Zheng Sanquan attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony, he said that he must fully support the Dongyi County Chamber of Commerce, support Dongyi County Cotton Textile Factory and handicraft practitioners.

After researching his predecessor Fu Dawei, Zheng Sanquan found that most of the reason for Fu's promotion was because of the county's business.

In turbulent times, the development of commerce represents the stability of a local environment, and without a stable environment, how can we talk about the development of commerce. It seems that no matter how reactionary this Zheng Sanquan is, he still has to learn the thick black study of officialdom. Even if you pretend to look like you, you have to put it up.

A few months later, the cotton cloth spun by the Dongyi County Cotton Textile Factory was successful, and after comprehensive accounting, the cost performance far exceeded that of Japanese foreign cloth. One of the most important aspects is that their raw material, cotton, is purchased directly from the local people.

The people's cotton has not been sold for less money, there is no intermediate link, and the cost of raw materials in cotton spinning mills has been reduced.

Upon learning of this news, Zheng Sanquan was overjoyed, so he wrote a report on the matter and submitted it to his superiors, and soon the model of the Dongyi Chamber of Commerce for warmth was implemented throughout the province.

Starting from a merchant who walked the streets, and then opened a store in the market, Xinglan has business experience that ordinary people do not have, dealing with the common people, interacting with peers, and dealing with the government, all of which are a valuable wealth for Xinglan.

Under the influence of his wife Mu Dongqing, he began to use his convenience to support the revolutionary cause being done by Dongqing and others from all aspects.

As long as the organization needs, money, and so on, he will provide whatever it needs, and he is proving to the organization with practical actions that he will also join the organization. And solemnly submitted an application to the party organization.

After a long period of observation and discussion, the organization believed that Wang Xinglan fully met the conditions for a revolutionary. So he asked Mu Dongqing to send a letter to Xinglan to return to Jingdi Village, which has become the administrative center of the eighth district of the organization, and the jurisdiction of the eight districts includes the Dongyi County Party Committee, the Xintai County Party Committee, and the Beixiang County Party Committee.

Based on Mu Dongqing's party organization branch committee, a revolutionary base with a solid mass foundation was gradually formed.

The secretary of the eighth district is Mu Dongwei, who was sent from the provincial capital by his superiors, who is the revolutionary guide of Holly and the cousin of his second uncle's family, but now he has become a revolutionary comrade.

Wang Xinglan, who received the news, returned to Jingdi Village and met Mu Dongwei, the eldest brother, for the first time, and the two felt cordial to each other as soon as they met. Let's talk about it, Dongwei listened to Xinglan's introduction in detail, how to establish the Dongyi County Business Federation and the joint venture to open a cotton textile factory, and gave a high evaluation of it, he said that you have made a good example and made a good start.

After the face-to-face inspection, Dongwei volunteered to be Xinglan's party introducer, convened several people in the branch, and under the party flag embroidered with an axe and sickle, Wang Xinglan solemnly raised his right hand to swear to the party.

Since then, Wang Xinglan has truly become a member of the party, and he and his wife Mu Dongqing have become real like-minded revolutionary partners.

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Yang Chun, who had been away from his hometown for nearly ten years, returned.

Yang Chun was an orphan, his mother died when he was four years old, and his father led him everywhere to flee the famine and ask for food.

When he arrived in Jingdi Village, his father also died, and Xiao Yangchun was taken in by Lao Liuxin, when he was six years old.

Lao Liuxin treats Yang Chun the same as his own children, and sometimes even better than his own children.

When he was older, he followed the second brother Xingchun to do farm work, because Xiao Yangchun likes to be with his second brother Xingchun.

Later, Yang Chun said that he wanted to follow the people in the village out to find a future, but Lao Liuxin did not stop him, and the child should go out to break through when he is older.

After Yang Chun and his entourage went out, they first went to Shanghai and worked in a textile factory. During this period, I met a person from the Shanghai underground party,

Influenced by this person, he also joined the revolution, and later, together with the leader of the revolution, he was transferred to work in the Ruijin Soviet Government, and experienced five anti-encirclement and suppression, participated in the Long March, and grew into a company commander of the Red Army after a long period of revolutionary baptism. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he was seriously wounded and lost his left arm, and he could no longer go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, so he strongly asked to return to his hometown and engage in some work within his ability. The organization researched and agreed to his request.

After reporting to the provincial party committee, he was appointed as the political commissar of the eighth district, and returned to Jingdi Village to connect with Mu Dongwei.

Two early revolutionaries, who had fought on different fronts for so many years, now finally had the opportunity to meet.

The two made a specific division of labor, although Yang Chun said that he was a political commissar, but he had a lot of actual combat experience and was in charge of the military.

At this time, on the basis of the Jingdi Village Self-Defense Force, the Eighth District Detachment had been established, with Yang Chun as the detachment leader, Mu Dongwei as the political commissar, and Mu Dongqing as the deputy secretary of the Eighth District and the captain of Dongyi County.

Everything was done in secret, but fortunately, Jingdi Village was basically a closed environment, and with the legal title of the militia group, it was much easier to carry out underground work.

Wong Tai Sin, the black sheep of the village, Holly specially arranged for someone to monitor him.

Since the Xi'an Incident in 1936 and the joint resistance of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party against Japan, Zheng Sanquan, a stubborn reactionary member of the Nationalist Government, did not dare to openly oppose our party under the slogan of joint resistance against Japan, but there were still small actions in private from time to time.

That morning, Mu Dongwei took a newspaper and called a meeting of several people, and after knowing the contents of the newspaper, several people were simply angry.